Mealwood

Mealwood is a food plant that grows from a Mealwood Seed.

Food
It produces Meal Lice which is edible or be further cooked into Liceloaf or Pickled Meal.

Meal Lice is less calorie dense than most other food items: a single kilogram of Meal Lice is only 600 kcal (for comparison, a 1kg Frost Bun is 1200 kcal). Storage capacity of a Refrigerator depends on mass.

600 kcal / 3 cycles = 200 kcal/cycle/plant. Consuming as liceloaf has a bonus of (1,700/1,200) ≈ 1.4. 200 kcal * 1.4 = 280 kcal/cycle/plant. Dupes need around 1,000 kcal/cycle, so you need around four plants per dupe.

The advantage of Meal Lice is that unlike other crops its requires only dirt and no water whatsoever, which makes it especially useful in dry starts, such as Forest Biome.

Growth
Mealwood requires temperature range of 10 °C - 30 °C, and air pressure of 150 g - 10 kg. It requires Oxygen, Polluted Oxygen or Carbon Dioxide atmosphere.

Wild
A wild Mealwood takes 12 cycles to grow to maturity.

Domestic
Mealwood can be planted in a Planter Box, a Farm Tile or a Hydroponic Farm. It needs to be fertilized with 10 kg/cycle of Dirt.

A domestic Mealwood takes 3 cycles to grow to maturity.

Mealwood can be planted from Mealwood Seeds acquired from digging wild Mealwood or uncovering buried objects.

Decor
A Mealwood Plant has a decor value of -10 with 2 tiles radius.